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“It’s a completely different outlook to most managers I’ve worked with before,” he said.

“He’s been fantastic with me, he totally understood my situation from the outset and, from a personal level, to have that and to respect how I feel every day, and to say today I’ve got to go to the pool or have a bike session, or today I’ve got to work hard, he really understands that, which is fantastic for me.”

On signing for City, he said: “It’s been great. Me personally, coming back into train and to play football is the main thing and everyone has welcomed me, so it’s been great.

“From a personal perspective and a football perspective, it’s been fantastic.

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“I am delighted – it’s a little bit strange, my first game felt a little like my debut again, it felt a bit weird against Cambridge and I probably ran round like a headless chicken, to be honest.

“But it’s been a long time, so it’s going to take me a few games to get back into it and training every day is getting better and better and hopefully I’ll get on the scoresheet when I can.”

Brunt says his knee injury has healed and says it is now a case of finding his feet again.

“It’s getting there,” he said. “It’s good, it’s fine but as a player I’ve got to get back into the swing of things. Training is getting better and better and I’m out there longer and things like that but I’ve got to be sensible as well.

“So it will take a while, it will take a few games to get back into it, but physiology-wise, it’s feeling good.”

City face Swindon Town this weekend and the 24-year-old is looking to build on what their opening win and a good performance in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup defeat to Charlton Athletic.

He said: “It was a great start on Saturday, it was a really tough game. Any first game of the season is tough but we really had to grind it out and the lads did fantastic.

“We did well again on Tuesday night but obviously couldn’t keep it at the end, but we’ll go there to win and go there and be positive.

“We’ve got a good bunch of lads and I think it’s going to be a good season.”